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explain the importance of Battle of Plassey for Indian history​

Answer 1

The Battle of Plassey was a major battle that took place on 23 June 1757 at Palashi, Bengal. It was an important British East India Company victory over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies. It let the British East India Company take control of this part of the Indian subcontinent.It was important as through this battle the british began to set their foot in India.

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Answer 2

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It is famous because in popular historical narrative it marks the transition from Late Medieval to Modern Age of India.

From Sir Jadunath Sarkar to Shekhar Banerjee, many historians consider Plassey a watershed moment akin to Battle Waterloo or Battle of Yorktown. It marks the start of British hegemony in India and start of the process which transformed the weighting scale of British Merchants into ruling scepter.

However, I am more inclined to the narrative of Modern Historians who believe that is is wrong to promote Plassey as decisive. It did not even make British power paramount even in Bengal as Nawab Mir Quasim’s revolt just six year after Plassey will show. Battle of Buxar in 1764 is far more decisive than Plassey as it established unchallenged Company hegemony in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, extended its influence to most of Gangetic plain and most important of all established them as legitimate part of Indian political establishment by grant of Dewani of Subah Bengal by none other than Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II himself. There will be hard fought battles to come yet for the British. In south Hyder Ali’s Mysore, in central and north India Nana Fadanbis’s Maratha Confederacy and later still Punjab’s Sikh Empire. All will test Company’s mandate to rule and it is not until 1850’s Company can finally say conquest of India is complete.

In Imperial popular perception, Plassey was given cult like status as it cemented British Legitimacy, and we still beat the old track because of Colonial hangover. In my view, it is high time Plassey stops being famous as watershed of British rule and we see spread of British influence in India as more of a long drawn complex process that lasted a century instead of outcome of a single and in my view rather inconsequential battle.

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